This is like garbage, going in a circle only to be thrown back into one’s hands.
Nan Shiying really wanted to pry open Qingzhu’s head and see what he was thinking. What business was Nan Yuan’er’s life and death of yours? Why were you meddling in this?
“I’m not going, I don’t care, let her wait to die!” Nan Shiying refused three times.
“Alright, then I know what to do.” Qingzhu didn’t insist, as if he had already expected Nan Shiying’s choice. This made Nan Shiying look at him more closely.
“Fine, you’re trying to test me now?”
Sensing something off in Nan Shiying’s tone, Qingzhu quickly explained, “Little Martial Uncle, don’t misunderstand. I just wanted to gauge from your reaction whether people from my Yaowang Valley should or can get involved with this matter.”
“And now?”
“We won’t get involved. We absolutely won’t. What does her life or death have to do with our Yaowang Valley?”
Qingzhu was merely curious and wanted to investigate what poison Nan Yuan’er had contracted. Seeing his Little Martial Uncle’s attitude, he abandoned the thought. In any case, if she died, he could still research the poison.
He could even dissect her to see what effects the poison had on the internal organs, and whether it altered the structure of the organ surfaces.
It had to be said, people from Yaowang Valley all possessed a certain trait of a major villain!
Fortunately, when Qingzhu examined Nan Yuan’er, he hadn’t mentioned poisoning. He only said her pulse was strange and he was unsure. Nan Chaoyin later sent someone to fetch him, but Qingzhu turned them away.
“Qingzhu visited the Regent’s mansion after examining Miss!” The dark guard reported the findings to Nan Chaoyin.
“Ji, Jin, Mo!”
Nan Chaoyin crushed the writing brush in his hand!
…
Two days later, a middle-aged man in a green shirt appeared outside the Tongji Pharmacy.
“Master?”
“Master, why are you here?”
“Martial Uncle!”
“Martial Uncle!”
Qingzhu, upon seeing his master appear outside the Tongji Pharmacy, was overjoyed and quickly led him into the backyard.
“Master, why are you here?”
Yadan was about to serve the tea when Xiaoman stopped her. Xiaoman took the teapot from her hand and served the tea herself. As she left, she cast a subtle glance at the newcomer.
“What, you’ve only been out for a few days, and your heart has already grown wild? You don’t want to see your master anymore?”
“Master, where did that come from? Your disciple is overjoyed!”
“Master, Master, Senior Brother has been bullying me all this time. He’s the one whose heart has grown wild and doesn’t want to see Master.” Qing Yuan immediately threw herself into the man’s embrace, tilting her head to complain, “Master, if you don’t come soon, Senior Brother will run off with Little Martial Uncle!”
“You dare to…!” Before the word “shit” could leave his mouth, Qingzhu coughed. Under his master’s surprised gaze, he swallowed the curse.
Qing Yuan pointed at Qingzhu and yelled, “Master, look, look! In just a few days, Senior Brother has started to curse incessantly! Master, Master, you go and duel with Little Martial Uncle, Master! Go grab Little Martial Uncle by the collar and question him on how he taught Senior Brother to be like this!”
“Master, Little Martial Uncle is simply inhuman, Master! Look at my little face, hasn’t it become haggard? Look, I’ve lost weight. Nowadays, I’m either learning needlework or seeing patients in the front hall. I’m exhausted and losing weight.”
“Wait a moment!”
The middle-aged man stopped Qing Yuan’s wailing and looked at Qingzhu, “Little Martial Uncle?”
Qingzhu explained, “Yes, Master. Feng Luan Martial Uncle is the legitimate disciple taken in by Poison Elder when he was outside. Poison Elder has already given the Elder’s Jade Token to Martial Uncle!”
“What did you say? You saw Poison Elder?” the man asked excitedly.
Qingzhu shook his head, “No, I only saw Little Martial Uncle!”
“So, everything you’ve said is just the one-sided testimony of that Feng Luan?” the man frowned.
Qingzhu blinked, “What does Master mean?”
“What if that jade token wasn’t passed to him by Poison Elder? What if he…”
“Nonsense!”
The moment the middle-aged man entered the capital, the news reached the Prince’s mansion. Upon hearing that someone from the Ji generation had entered the capital, Poison Elder, along with Nan Shiying, came to Tongji Pharmacy. As soon as he entered, he heard his disciple’s foul language.
The middle-aged man turned around and saw Poison Elder with a furious expression.
“Martial Uncle!” He immediately straightened up.
“It’s you! Little Ji Wu!” It was that simple-minded disciple of Hui Ji.
A look of embarrassment flashed across the middle-aged man’s face. He chuckled dryly, “Martial Uncle, I’m already this old, and you…”
Poison Elder glared, his reprimand hitting him like a barrage, “What, you’re bringing up age with an old man like me? At your age, what else are you but Little Ji Wu? You’re Little Wu…”
Fearing that Poison Elder would call out his childhood nickname, Ji Wu quickly interrupted, “Martial Uncle, where have you been all these years? Master and First Martial Uncle miss you greatly.”
“Where? Your master and martial uncles dare to ask? For how many years has Yaowang Valley not received any talented disciples, forcing me to search for disciples all over the land.”
Ji Wu: “……”
You might as well point at our noses and call us idiots.
“Oh, right, Little Ji Wu, this is my disciple, your junior brother, Feng Luan,” Poison Elder said, pulling Nan Shiying to his side and introducing him to Ji Wu, as if he hadn’t noticed Ji Wu’s constipated expression.
“Senior Brother Ji Wu!”
“Junior Brother Feng Luan!”
“Junior Brother is truly a man of great talent!”
“Senior Brother, your demeanor is outstanding. You look like a medical sage!”
“Not at all, Junior Brother’s praise is too much!”
“No, no, Senior Brother is too humble!”
“Are you two done? Are you just flattering each other here? If you keep flattering, won’t Yaowang Valley belong to you?”
Ji Wu gestured with an embarrassed expression, “Ji Wu dares not!”
Nan Shiying rolled his eyes at the old man. Fine, he would save some face for him in front of his nephew!
He sat down, picked up a teacup, poured some tea, and drank it in one gulp. Then he asked Ji Wu, “Is there anything else? If not, take these little rascals and get lost!”
Ji Wu twitched his lips. After many years, his Martial Uncle still had such a fiery temper.
“Before descending the mountain, Master asked me to visit the Nan residence. After visiting the Nan residence, this junior nephew will take them on a journey.” Originally, he was leading the team this time, but he was delayed by other matters, which caused his late arrival. Now that Feng Luan’s identity had been confirmed, they indeed didn’t need to stay any longer.
After all, the current Lin Yuan seemed to be in a turbulent state, and they from Yaowang Valley did not wish to get involved!
“The Nan residence?” Poison Elder frowned.
“Since when did your master become so meddlesome?” The relationship between his disciple and the Nan residence was one of life and death. Yet, Hui Ji, of all people, had formed a friendship with Nan Chaoyin?
To be honest, Ji Wu didn’t know either. His master had only told him to visit the Nan residence and check on Madam Nan’s illness, and hadn’t said much else. He found it difficult to ask for more details!
“Fine, fine, leave quickly after you’re done!”